A NEW AMSTERDAM SUPPORT FOR ALL PAINTERS WHO SEARCH FOR

THE HEARTLAND OF PAINTING

 Verfhond art initiative – based in Amsterdam, Holland

Our online survey on the present status of painting from all over the world:

 A Thousand Living Painters

OFFLINE

In 2010-11 the initiative organized ten exhibits @ Kerkstraat 276 Amsterdam  - read more 

Starting from February 25, 2012, the initiative will be curatorial programming partner of

APPELS  GALLERY

Brouwersgracht 151 Amsterdam

 The gallery and initiative joined to offer non-traditionalist 21st Century painting a platform.

Next to the gallery debute of Raquel van Haver (a very promising 23 y.o. Colombia-born, Amsterdam based painter) and works of her young collegues Kim David Bots and Jeppe Lauge… there will be a collection of small works (‘A small embassy of living painters’) in the back room of the gallery.

The ‘Painter’s Embassy’ will last until at least December 2012. All works can be purchased.

contributors:

Eva Raeder (Berlin), Inga Dalrymple (Sydney), Valerie Brennan (Madrid), Danielle McCullough, Julia Schwartz and Mary Addison Hackett (all three based in Los Angeles), Maarten van den Bos, Alli Sharma, Jo Wilmot and Olly Beck (all four based in London), Sabine Tress (Cologne), Bridget Fahy (Cyprus), Robert Lang (Bristol), Jaap de Vries (Breda), Michael de Kok (Tilburg) and from Amsterdam: Aldwin van de Ven, Marli Turion, Gijs van Noort, Micha Patiniott, and many others. And there’s more to come.